Eye-Openers: The Great Knish Shortage of 2013

A food cart in midtown Manhattan in New York sports signs offering square potato-filled Jewish snacks. But since a fire in the Long Island factory that makes them, there has been a knish crunch, and some vendors have had to resort to selling round knishes. (AP Photo/Verena Dobnik)

A factory fire at New York’s 92-year-old Gabila’s Knishes has prompted a massive shortage of knishes. Gabila’s sells about 15 million knishes a year, and bills itself as the world’s biggest maker of knishes. People across America are getting upset at the knish shortage, which is now in its sixth week. Gabila’s hopes to be back up and running by Hanukkah. [SFGate/AP]

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